![]() Here were members of one of the finest planning faculties in America, at one of the most respected programs in the world, suggesting that their chosen field was minor and irrelevant. This surprised and alarmed a number of us. But also on the board appeared, like a sacrilegious graffito, the words “Trivial Profession.” 1 When we voted to rank the listed items in order of importance, “Trivial Profession” was placed - lo and behold - close to the top. All the expected themes were there - sustainability and global warming, equity and justice, peak oil, immigration, urban sprawl and public health, retrofitting suburbia, and so on. ![]() These lists were then collected and transcribed on the whiteboard. ĭuring a recent retreat here at Chapel Hill, planning faculty conducted a brainstorming session in which each professor - including me - was asked to list, anonymously, some of the major issues and concerns facing the profession today. Dodge Corporation Committee on Postwar Construction Markets. “Construction Potentials: Postwar Prospects and Problems, a Basis for Action,” Architectural Record, 1943 prepared by the F.W. ![]()
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